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Selling a Nissan on craigslist in Springfield, MO. Says she's about to be deployed to afghanistan and doesn't want to pay for insurance and storage for a year. There's another complaint about her on this site from July (2014). Here's the ad:

Hi ,
Sorry for delay,my name is Pamela,happy to see you are interested in my 2005 Nissan Maxima SEL.Let me give you a few details about it. Really good shape, never had any problems with it, no scratches or dents, Non-smoker,101,425 Mileage, automatic transmission,V6 3.5 Engine,VIN:1N4BA41E85C853409, the title is clear in my name.
The price was reduced at $2,000.Photos available here:http://s1307.photobucket.com/user/PamelaSalas/library/
I'm selling it so low due the fact that my medical team will deploy back to Afghanistan on October 31th for 1 year contract and its not worth keeping insurance and paying storage fees for 1 year so there's no use on keeping it,therefore I need a fast and reliable buyer.If you are interested email me back.
Sincerely,
Senior Medic Sgt. Pamela Salas.

Follow Ups/Extra Information. Most recent is listed first.

Anonymous () Added the following extra information on :2015-06-06 12:48:14

Checked the vin# at carfax and found this person is not the owner of the car and she is not located in Raleigh,north Carolina.
Kris

Scam Email

Hi ,
Sorry for delay,my name is Pamela,happy to see you are interested in my 2006 Toyota RAV4.Let me give you a few details about it. Really good shape, never had any problems with it, no scratches or dents, Non-smoker,123,171 Mileage, automatic transmission 4-Speed,Engine Type I4,VIN:JTMBD32VX65014930, the title is clear in my name.
The price was reduced at $2,000.Photos available here:http://s1026.photobucket.com/user/pamelasalas88a/library/
I'm selling it so low due the fact that my medical team will deploy back to Afghanistan on June 20th for 1 year contract and its not worth keeping insurance and paying storage fees for 1 year so there's no use on keeping it,therefore I need a fast and reliable buyer.If you have any other questions, please feel free to ask.
Sincerely,
Senior Medic Sgt. Pamela Salas

Anonymous () Added the following extra information on :2015-06-01 17:11:11

Same story as the others, saw an ad on CraigsList and responded. Then was asked to respond to email address. First clip here:
Hi ,
Sorry for delay,my name is Pamela,happy to see you are interested in my 2006 Toyota RAV4.Let me give you a few details about it. Really good shape, never had any problems with it, no scratches or dents, Non-smoker,123,171 Mileage, automatic transmission 4-Speed,Engine Type I4,VIN:JTMBD32VX65014930, the title is clear in my name.
The price was reduced at $2,000.Photos available here:http://s1026.photobucket.com/user/pamelasalas88a/library/
I'm selling it so low due the fact that my medical team will deploy back to Afghanistan on June 15th for 1 year contract and its not worth keeping insurance and paying storage fees for 1 year so there's no use on keeping it,therefore I need a fast and reliable buyer.If you have any other questions, please feel free to ask.
Sincerely,
Senior Medic Sgt. Pamela Salas
I responded to the above asking for a phone call, then got the next clip:
Hi again,
I will do my best to walk you through the process. As I told you in my first email, my medical team will deploy back to Afghanistan. Right now I'm at Nevada Army National Guard. I am only allowed to check my email. We have to stick to email for now.I advertised it on other states also to get more exposure and sell it faster. The vehicle is here with me at the base and the delivery process will be managed by me, ready to be delivered to its future new owner. The deal is handled by eBay so I don't have much to do about it. I think I can have it there at your home address in 2-3 days. In addition, you get 5 days to try it out before buying it, and if you don't like it, you can send it back at my expense. For more info on how it works, I can ask eBay to send you an email with more details on how to buy it. They will contact you shortly, as soon as have your personal details. If you would like to receive the email from eBay Motors with all the transaction information, please reply with your whole name, address and phone # and they will contact you right away.
Thanks

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brandy (Charlotte, NC, United States) Added the following extra information on :2015-02-06 00:52:51

I found musicbox 2005 Nissan maxima for sale 2200 i sent email to fnmng-4870206916@sale.craigslist.org and received email back asking to email her at Pamela Salas88@g.mail.com and she had lowered price of car to $2000 so I did and she told me she is a senior medic sergeant at army base in Nevada and could only email she said she was going to be deployed back to Afghanistan in Feb 10th and selling the car would be better than paying storage for year that she's gone. Told me if inferestd in the car then eBay motors would be in touch with me. The ndxt day I got an email from eBay Inc.with an invoice to purchase car and said to buy 4 pay pal my cash cards n load $500 a piece on them so I have amount of car so I spent 503.95x 4 n then sent message asking for me to buy more my cash cards equaling $1500 for shipping insurance that's when I just said I'm not I interested and come to find out that same day she used pin numbers from copies of my cash card n loaded 2000$ onto a PayPal account and I don't no how to get my money back.